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To: SunkenCiv

It would be a red dwarf star starting at about 75 or 80 Jupiter masses. It is almost a brown dwarf, however, which starts at about 13 Jupiter masses. Those aren’t technically planets because they can possibly fuse deuterium at some point, and shine with a dull red glow.


16 posted on 05/11/2015 2:06:37 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Can you explain that process for the layman?


18 posted on 05/11/2015 2:08:59 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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